Google Loses Search Market Share
Bing (formally Live Search, Windows Live Search, MSN Search) is the current search engine offering by Microsoft. Released on June 3, 2009 it got off to a good start. Straight away it had Google scared with a dedicated anti-Bing team being set up by Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Google obviously have to take notice of any new competitors but is this anti-Bing team soley precautionary?
Bing already bigger than Digg, Twitter and CNN
After one month Bing has already become the 13th most visited site on the web. It has had 49.57 million unique visitors in its first month. Bing’s traffic has overshadowed Digg (38.96 million) Twitter (23 million) and CNN (28.54 million).
After two months Bing already has a market share of 9.41% and for once the market share gained has come from search giant Google. In June Google lost 1.3% of the search market share. The interesting part is that Yahoo actually grew 11% last month.
In July Bing had 70 million more searches, an 8% growth.Yahoo has also grown by 0.9% to give it a 17.1 percent share of the search market. The fact is that Yahoo sites saw almost 190 million more searches, growing at a par, in absolute numbers, with Google.
What about search result quality?
The truth is that when comparing search results no more than 45% of people chose a particular search engine result showing that quality is pretty similar between the three search engines.
What do you think? Comment below:
Google may have lost a slight amount in the market share but it is still by far the most popular search engine and will continue to be so i think1
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And now MS partnering with Yahoo!! Say Cheese time for Google? Is it?
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